Surah At-Tawbah (The Repentance) in English

1. يعتذرون إليكم إذا رجعتم إليهم قل لا تعتذروا لن نؤمن لكم قد نبأنا الله من أخباركم وسيرى الله عملكم ورسوله ثم تردون إلى عالم الغيب والشهادة فينبئكم بما كنتم تعملون

   94

   They will offer you excuses when you return to them. Say, ‘Do not make excuses; we will never believe you. Allah has informed us of your state of affairs. Allah and His Apostle will observe your conduct, then you will be returned to the Knower of the sensible and the Unseen, and He will inform you concerning what you used to do.’

   yaʿtadhirūna ʾilaykum ʾidhā rajaʿtum ʾilayhim qul lā taʿtadhirū lan nuʾmina lakum qad nabbaʾanā llāhu min ʾakhbārikum wa-sa-yarā llāhu ʿamalakum wa-rasūluhū thumma turaddūna ʾilā ʿālimi l-ghaybi wa-sh-shahādati fa-yunabbiʾukum bi-mā kuntum taʿmalūna

2. سيحلفون بالله لكم إذا انقلبتم إليهم لتعرضوا عنهم فأعرضوا عنهم إنهم رجس ومأواهم جهنم جزاء بما كانوا يكسبون

   95

   They will swear to you by Allah when you return to them, that you may leave them alone. So leave them alone. They are indeed filth, and their refuge shall be hell, a requital for what they used to earn.

   sa-yaḥlifūna bi-llāhi lakum ʾidhā nqalabtum ʾilayhim li-tuʿriḍū ʿanhum fa-ʾaʿriḍū ʿanhum ʾinnahum rijsun wa-maʾwāhum jahannamu jazāʾan bi-mā kānū yaksibūna

3. يحلفون لكم لترضوا عنهم فإن ترضوا عنهم فإن الله لا يرضى عن القوم الفاسقين

   96

   They swear to you that you may be reconciled to them. But even if you are reconciled to them, Allah shall not be reconciled to the transgressing lot.

   yaḥlifūna lakum li-tarḍaw ʿanhum fa-ʾin tarḍaw ʿanhum fa-ʾinna llāha lā yarḍā ʿani l-qawmi l-fāsiqīna

4. الأعراب أشد كفرا ونفاقا وأجدر ألا يعلموا حدود ما أنزل الله على رسوله والله عليم حكيم

   97

   The Bedouins are more obdurate in unfaith and hypocrisy, and more apt to be ignorant of the precepts that Allah has sent down to His Apostle, and Allah is all-knowing, all-wise.

   al-ʾaʿrābu ʾashaddu kufran wa-nifāqan wa-ʾajdaru ʾallā yaʿlamū ḥudūda mā ʾanzala llāhu ʿalā rasūlihī wa-llāhu ʿalīmun ḥakīmun

5. ومن الأعراب من يتخذ ما ينفق مغرما ويتربص بكم الدوائر عليهم دائرة السوء والله سميع عليم

   98

   Among the Bedouins are those who regard what they spend as a loss, and they watch for a reversal of your fortunes. Theirs shall be an adverse turn of fortune, and Allah is all-hearing, all-knowing.

   wa-mina l-ʾaʿrābi man yattakhidhu mā yunfiqu maghraman wa-yatarabbaṣu bikumu d-dawāʾira ʿalayhim dāʾiratu s-sawʾi wa-llāhu samīʿun ʿalīmun

6. ومن الأعراب من يؤمن بالله واليوم الآخر ويتخذ ما ينفق قربات عند الله وصلوات الرسول ألا إنها قربة لهم سيدخلهم الله في رحمته إن الله غفور رحيم

   99

   Yet among the Bedouins are [also] those who believe in Allah and the Last Day, and regard what they spend as [a means of attaining] nearness to Allah and the blessings of the Apostle. Now, it shall indeed bring them nearness, and Allah will admit them into His mercy. Indeed Allah is all-forgiving, all-merciful.

   wa-mina l-ʾaʿrābi man yuʾminu bi-llāhi wa-l-yawmi l-ʾākhiri wa-yattakhidhu mā yunfiqu qurubātin ʿinda lāhi wa-ṣalawāti r-rasūli ʾa-lā ʾinnahā qurbatun lahum sa-yudkhiluhumu llāhu fī raḥmatihī ʾinna llāha ghafūrun raḥīmun